Responding to Questions at Press Conferences

Download or read book Responding to Questions at Press Conferences written by Peng Wu and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to Questions at Press Conferences makes clear how the spokespersons at China’s diplomatic press conferences maneuver strategically in defining the issues in the empirical counterpart of the confrontation stage when responding to the journalists’ questions and how this confrontational maneuvering is meant to be instrumental in convincing the intended audience. The detailed and systematic analysis of the various modes of confrontational maneuvering adopted by the spokespersons elucidate how China’s recently established “progressive” diplomatic style is shaped by its spokespersons’ argumentative discourse.